VB Forum / General / January 2008

           To allow form resizing diagonally only:
Private Sub Form_Resize()
   If Me.width = lastX Or Me.height = lastY Then ' when not resizing
diagonally

I have a VB6 application that is used for data acquisition on a factory
floor. As each test is completed, new test data is appended to a data
file written to the HD. At any point in the testing process, the
operator can press an 'Edit Datafile' button, and the file containing

Hi Gang,
I have a program I wrote a long time ago and it must have had the
indent set to 2, which I've long since learned isn't clear enough.  Is
there a way to have it crawl through each module in my project and

We are all in quest of true happiness.  In this world, the idea of
true/perfect happiness is not feasible because this world is
inevitably doomed to total annihilation.  True happiness is found only
in dwelling upon Paradise, and enjoying its blessings.  However, none

When using Set statement the following way:
Public CmdDialCurrent As CommandButton
Set CmdDialCurrent = command1
Now, if I want to create the new reference should I first do:

Surely others have experienced this problem.  While working OFFLINE
and while either VB programming, running my own VB programs, or ANY
other tasks, the MSN sign on window pops up every 15 minutes or so.
This is a pain in the butt.  Does anyone know how to stop this from

I have a set of enumerations (options) that I want to store in a long.
The flags range from 2^0 to 2^5. I am storing combinations of this
Anyone knows how I may check if an 'option' is 'masked' in the flag ?

          My app comes with the custom dll file. During the installation (I
am using vbasic Setup Wizard to create the installation package) that dll
file is copied into Windows system folder.
What does happen when user decides to remove that app from Windows using

Had added some error information where I added the calling proc + Erl in the
calling proc to be passed to a function and this information to be shown in
this function.
Now found out that this doesn't work as at the line in the calling proc

I have a customer who has a problem using my VB6 program installed using the
VB6 installer on to a  Win XP machine
He installed the program as an Administrator and all works fine.  But when
another non-admin user runs the program he gets an error like "cannot open

I have a vb app that uses a .net wrapper that exposes the Process
object.  I use this object to loop through all of the system running
processes and look for other instances of the same application.  If I
find one, i want to be able to read either a (label or text box from a

           I have the picture box containing the array of 12 command
buttons (each button is square):
4 rows and 3 columns
Because the all buttons must be visible and stay square at any time and

Over the years, I've used several methods for eliminating trailing Nul
characters, including:
1. Using API functions.
2. Looping to remove trailing Nul characters by checking rightmost

I am a highschool student and I have to do a payroll program for a
FBLA competition and I have no idea how to even begin doing the things
they want me to do with this .dat file.  Please help if you can, Here
is the prompt:

So I was just using Agent Ransack to find a file and when I right-clicked on
the file in the results pane, I got the same context menu for the file that
I would have gotten had I right-clicked on it in an Explorer window. Is
there an API for this, or did the people who wrote ...